Exodus 3:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ God Calls MosesMeanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God’s mountain, where

¹⁶ Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father’s sheep.

¹⁸ When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you returned so quickly today?”

²¹ Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

⁵ “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

²⁷ Moses and Aaron Meet and Return to EgyptThe LORD told Aaron, “Go meet Moses in the desert.” So Aaron went, found him at the mountain of God, and embraced him.

⁶ I’ll be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. You are to strike the rock and water will come out of it, so the people can drink.” Moses did this in front of the elders of Israel.

¹ Jethro Visits MosesJethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. ² Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken back Moses’ wife Zipporah after she had been sent away, ³ along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom, because he used to say, “I was an alien in a foreign land,” ⁴ while the name of the other was Eliezer, because he used to say, “My father’s God helped me and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
⁵ Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, together with Moses’ two sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camped at the mountain of God. ⁶ He told Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons.”

³ Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and declare to the sons of Israel,

¹¹ and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

¹³ So Moses got up, along with Joshua his servant, and went up on the mountain of God.

¹⁵ When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it. ¹⁶ The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. Then on the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud. ¹⁷ To the Israelis the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.

²⁹ Moses invites His Father-in-Law to Accompany IsraelThen Moses told Reuel’s son Hobab, Moses’ relative by marriage from Midian, “We are traveling to the place about which the LORD said ‘I will give it to you.’ So come with us and we’ll be good to you, because the LORD has spoken good things about Israel.”

⁶ “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb. He said, ‘You have been at this mountain long enough.

¹⁰ The day you stood in the presence of the LORD your God in Horeb, the LORD told me, ‘Gather the people before me so they may hear my words, learn to revere me the whole time that they live in the land, and teach them to their children.’”
¹¹ Meanwhile, Heber the Kenite had been separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law Hobab. He had pitched his tents far away, near the Elon-bezaanannim.

⁸ So Elijah got up, ate and drank, and survived on that one meal for 40 days and nights as he set out on his journey to Horeb, God’s mountain.

⁷⁰ Then he chose his servant David, whom he took from the sheepfold. ⁷¹ He brought him from birthing sheep to care for Jacob, his people, Israel, his possession. ⁷² David shepherded them with a devoted heart, and led them with skillful hands.

¹⁹ They fashioned a calf at Horeb and worshipped a carved image.

¹ Amos is Called to ProphesyThe words of Amos, who was among the sheep breeders of Tekoa, which he spoke concerning Israel during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah and during the reign of Joash’s son Jeroboam, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

¹⁴ Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, “I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet’s son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees. ¹⁵ But the LORD took me from tending the flock and the LORD kept saying to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

⁴ The Coming of Elijah the Prophet“Remember the Law of Moses my servant that I gave him at Horeb for all Israel—both the decrees and laws.

¹⁸ Jesus Calls Four Fishermen
While Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon (also called Peter) and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, because they were fishermen. ¹⁹ “Follow me,” he told them, “and I will make you fishers of people!”

⁸ The Shepherds Visit JesusIn that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.